Elvis Presley Quotes

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

When we kiss my heart's on fire, burning with a strange desire. And I know that every time I kiss you, that your heart's on fire, too.

I've spent a life time waiting for the right time, now that you're near, the time is here at last.

When I get married, it'll be no secret.

I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend-without a song.' So I keep singing a song.

When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake.

I'm evil, my middle name is misery. Well, I'm evil, so don't mess around with me.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

I forgot to remember to forget.

Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfill. For my darling, I love you, and I always will.

I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.

Blacko-oxy-tonic phosphate, it's the latest scoop. But that's alright girls, you can call it goop.

There's no job too immense, when you got confidence.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now.

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

Money honey, if you want to get along with me.

Sharing money is what gives it its value.

Friends are people you can talk to... without words when you have to.

Ma'am, I'm not tryin' to be sexy. Ah didn't have any clear idea of trying to sell sex. It's just my way of expressin' how I feel when I move around. It's all leg movement. I don't do nothin' with my body.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.

When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times... I learned very early in life that "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song." So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.

When things go wrong, don't go with them.

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God...I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime.

I'll stay in Memphis.

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?

Like a river flows surely to the sea/Darling so it goes/Some things are meant to be/Take my hand, take my whole life too/For I can't help falling in love with you.

You're so square, baby, I don't care.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up.

Don't tell me baby you gotta go, I got the hifi high and the lights down low.

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

Man, I really like Vegas.

Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music. That music became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape from the problems. And my way of release.

All I want is to know the truth, to know and experience God. I'm a searcher, that's what I'm all about.

It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes me look smarter than I am. I've never even had an idea for a song. Just once, mybe.